Wax Tailor

this guy rocks it like a mother fucker

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You should check out his 2005 album called "Tales of the Forgotten Melodies". I bought it on a impulse after hearing one of the songs at a record store.

You will love it.

This was the song that made me buy the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQUz7ZDrBpE

Dude, yes. Tales of the Forgotten Melodies is the best. Amazing stuff. But I like all his releases really, just In the Mood for Life a bit less.

Saw him at Dour Festival, he rocked.

This sounds fantastic!

Good stuff... Makes me wanna see some belly dancing in a smokey harem

i know that Forgotten Melodies is considered this guy's best. but I like Hope & Sorrow better. It rocks more. It's more hip hop with fewer trip hop diversions.

  On 8/1/2010 at 7:30 AM, LOL Alzado said:

i know that Forgotten Melodies is considered this guy's best. but I like Hope & Sorrow better. It rocks more. It's more hip hop with fewer trip hop diversions.

Either one...it's all gold!

ps I bought the instrumental version of In the Mood for Life from iTunes and it's pretty great.

Wax Tailor's latest album, Dusty Rainbow From the Dark, was released last week. Thoughts on it? I think it's quite smooth and definitely hitting the spot more so than In the Mood for Life did - I lost some interest there. No match for Tales of the Forgotten Melodies, but nice, and maybe matching Hope & Sorrow in quality. Maybe not quite so, I'll have to give that one a refresher listen.

honestly, i think this kind of sound is incredibly dated. it sounds like what music used to sound like when a label like ninja tune was all the rave. his first album was cool, but then it took him forever to release hope & sorrow and by that time, most people had matured along with 98% of the people that were still trying to recreate early shadow material.

even the album art reminds me of what mid 80s/late 90s graffiti artists started to do when they started "to go legit".

I'm not a fan of the album art, personally.

The music is the "same old" instrumental hip-hop that has been around for a while, that Blockhead also keeps churning out. Doesn't keep me from enjoying it if it's done right.

You could argue the same about a lot of IDM, honestly, even from some of the featured or otherwise well-known artists.

i do make the same argument regardless of genre. my main grip is usually about the sound itself: wax tailor (to me) sounds like early dj vadim, dj krush and dj cam and i find that sound very representative of those mid 90s acts and while that music was cool (especially for the time), i don't see what wax tailor is changing to make his sound representative of himself alone. as it stands, it just sounds like that other stuff- and this is the year 2012.

Like I said, I can't disagree with you, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it. To me there is a certain something that make his sound unique. It's hard to pinpoint, as on the surface it's the same sample-heavy instrumental hip-hop as some others. Maybe it's the style of samples (very cinematic), his sometimes classical-influenced sounds, or the guest vocalists he tends to use. I think it's a combination of the three. But to me, while the style is not anything new, he's good at what he does.